Worshippers gathered Sunday at Tindley Temple United Methodist Church to celebrate the legacy of pioneering opera singer and civil rights leader Marian Anderson. Anderson was a lifelong member of the ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Key events in the life of pioneering contralto Marian Anderson, whose name replaced Verizon on the Philadelphia Orchestra on Wednesday: Feb. 27, 1897 — Born in Philadelphia. Early ...

Program pamphlet of Marian Anderson's performance at Milwaukee Auditorium on March 28, 1944. The voice of Marian Anderson performing at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. was heard on Easter ...

Marian Anderson was an American contralto. She performed a wide range of music, from opera to spirituals. Anderson performed with renowned orchestras in major concert and recital venues throughout the ...

The “Faith, Music and Community” event hosted by the Marian Anderson Museum celebrates musical legend and her contributions to Philadelphia’s history. Young girls from the African American Stilt ...

Famed contralto Marian Anderson appeared on stages around the world but also showed up to sing in Iowa. Her audiences included kings and queen in Europe and a president and first lady at the White ...

It was in a little studio on an outlying farm that famed singer Marian Anderson brought her voice to Danbury. Built in the 1940s on Marianna Farm off Joe's Hill Road on the city's west side, the ...

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